The document discusses communication skills and provides tips for teaching listening skills to students. It recommends focusing on both specific details and the big picture when listening. When teaching listening, teachers should provide a motivating text related to students' interests and needs. Students prefer authentic listening texts. Teachers should teach students strategies for listening like looking for key words, nonverbal cues, predicting purpose, associating information with background knowledge, guessing meaning from context, seeking clarification, and listening for the general idea.

1. Rodrigo Márquez

2. - What is it?
-Is it important?
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Communication

5. Focus on specific details Focus on the big picture
For Listening: For Listening:
-Pronunciation -Setting
-Intonation -Topic
-Stress -Mood
-Specific words -Main idea

6. Brainstorm ideas
Make mental maps
Discuss about the topic
Games

7. Students need a purpose for listening
A motivating text is related to the student’s interests and needs
Students prefer authentic texts

8. Teach your students HOW to listen
-Look for key words
-Look for nonverbal cues
-Predict the speaker’s purpose by the context of discourse
-Associate information with one’s background knowledge
-Guess meaning from context
-Seeking clarification
-Listening for the general gist

18. Team up!
What activities would
you do with a video
like this one?

19. Good sense of humour
intelligence